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An indirect reference to a myth, piece of artwork, literature, etc.

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Soliloquy

• Personification

A few brief lines said on stage, directed to the audience; other characters cannot hear it

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Speech

A longer set of lines said by one character in which other characters may hear it

• Dialogue

• Aside

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud either when a character is alone or others are on stage (the other characters don't hear it)

• Aside

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Dialogue

When the audience knows something about a plot or character that the actors on stage do not know

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Apostrophe

Repeating the same starting sounds of words in a line of text (e.g. Sally sold solid soup bowls.)

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

A play on words

• Personification

• Pun

• Simile

• Understatement

the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

• Hyperbole

• Comparison

• Juxtaposition

• Understatement

lines addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).

• Assonance

• Soliloquy

• Apostrophe

• Aside

When something happens and it is the opposite of what you expect to happen

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Oxymoron